"Advocacy in my opinion is the Politics of Empowerment. Choices and Rights
often remain aspirational rather than actual in disabled peoples lives. Advocacy
and the role of advocates are central to collective and cultural change. Its not
just about role-modelling its about actual words that articulate an experience
of vulnerability and oppression. Advocacy, for me, is knowing that other people
are going to pull me through a tough time. Discrimination is not just a one-off
incident, its a schematic process, which annihilates your self-esteem and
ultimately breaks or shapes your identity Advocacy is about not colluding with
the system or the status quo. As a disabled woman, my advocates come from
two different communities: the Traveller community and the Disability
Community Advocates actually explain what sexism or racism is and then
leave you with the tools to tackle the specific issues in your life."
Rosaleen McDonagh National Traveller Women's Forum;
Chairperson, Centre of Independent Living

Forum of People with Disabilities. 2001. Advocacy: a rights issue: a reflection document, 2001. Dublin: Forum of People with Disabilities.

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"Advocacy in my opinion is the Politics of Empowerment. Choices and Rights
often remain aspirational rather than actual in disabled peoples lives. Advocacy
and the role of advocates are central to collective and cultural change. Its not
just about role-modelling its about actual words that articulate an experience
of vulnerability and oppression. Advocacy, for me, is knowing that other people
are going to pull me through a tough time. Discrimination is not just a one-off
incident, its a schematic process, which annihilates your self-esteem and
ultimately breaks or shapes your identity Advocacy is about not colluding with
the system or the status quo. As a disabled woman, my advocates come from
two different communities: the Traveller community and the Disability
Community Advocates actually explain what sexism or racism is and then
leave you with the tools to tackle the specific issues in your life."
Rosaleen McDonagh National Traveller Women's Forum;
Chairperson, Centre of Independent Living

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Forum of People with Disabilities

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ADVOCACY

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DISCRIMINATION

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SELF-ESTEEM

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PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITY

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GYPSIES AND TRAVELLERS

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Advocacy: a rights issue: a reflection document, 2001.

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Report

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